01508nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100120008008200220009210000250011424500270013926000400016630000280020652008640023465000260109870000270112494200120115199900190116395201080118220220517094128.0220517b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0586088997  cAL  aEnglish  223a823.914bLESS  aDoris Lessing937520  aSummer Before the Dark  aLondonbPaladin Grafton Booksc1990  a236 p.bPBc19.5x13 cm.  aThe story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and, on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate’s new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences.
A novel of self-discovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessing’s brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, ‘The Summer Before the Dark’ has been hailed by some as Lessing’s best book.  aWomen--Fiction937521  aLESSING (DORIS)937522  2ddccGF  c222960d222960  00102ddc40708ENGaALbALd2013-03-24l0o823.914 LESSpGF02349r2022-05-17 00:00:00w2022-05-17yGF